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Who has authority to investigate the police department for this obvious corruption? Can anyone be held accountable?

tootie 3y ago
Basically go up the food chain. This corruption is probably more on the magistrate who signed the warrant than the police who served it, but that gets investigated by the state or the DOJ.
hyperpape 3y ago
I can’t vouch for it, but the article I read yesterday stated that the police department violated a federal law governing how law enforcement seizes information from journalists. If so, the feds could become involved.
stevespang 3y ago
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sorrytobedark 3y ago
Unfortunately probably no one, hence heavy vigilantism in the past which is starting to recur.
vel0city 3y ago
Often the FBI will get involved when they hear about corruption. https://www.fbi.gov/about/faqs/does-the-fbi-investigate-graft-and-corruption-in-local-government-and-in-state-and-local-police-departments https://www.fbi.gov/about/faqs/does-the-fbi-investigate-graf... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbs_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbs_Act Really goes to show you how wide interstate commerce clause goes.
mcpackieh 3y ago
The FBI, but they're too busy grooming mentally disabled people into fabricated terror plots, because real terrorism is far too rare to justify their inflated headcounts and budgets. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment-fake-terror-plots https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment... https://theintercept.com/2015/07/13/another-terror-arrest-another-mentally-ill-man-armed-fbi/ https://theintercept.com/2015/07/13/another-terror-arrest-an... https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a47390/alabama-isis-peyton-pruitt/ https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a47390/alabama-isis-pe... https://thefreethoughtproject.com/the-state/fbi-frames-mentally-challenged-teen-suspected-terrorism https://thefreethoughtproject.com/the-state/fbi-frames-menta... https://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/19/how_the_fbi_created_a_terrorist https://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/19/how_the_fbi_created_a...
sanderjd 3y ago
Everyone. These people are totally screwed. The state of Kansas will be racing to prosecute this before the feds get to it first.

Basically go up the food chain. This corruption is probably more on the magistrate who signed the warrant than the police who served it, but that gets investigated by the state or the DOJ.

hyperpape 3y ago

I can’t vouch for it, but the article I read yesterday stated that the police department violated a federal law governing how law enforcement seizes information from journalists. If so, the feds could become involved.

stevespang 3y ago

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sorrytobedark 3y ago

Unfortunately probably no one, hence heavy vigilantism in the past which is starting to recur.

vel0city 3y ago

Often the FBI will get involved when they hear about corruption. https://www.fbi.gov/about/faqs/does-the-fbi-investigate-graft-and-corruption-in-local-government-and-in-state-and-local-police-departments https://www.fbi.gov/about/faqs/does-the-fbi-investigate-graf... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbs_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbs_Act Really goes to show you how wide interstate commerce clause goes.

mcpackieh 3y ago

The FBI, but they're too busy grooming mentally disabled people into fabricated terror plots, because real terrorism is far too rare to justify their inflated headcounts and budgets. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment-fake-terror-plots https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment... https://theintercept.com/2015/07/13/another-terror-arrest-another-mentally-ill-man-armed-fbi/ https://theintercept.com/2015/07/13/another-terror-arrest-an... https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a47390/alabama-isis-peyton-pruitt/ https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a47390/alabama-isis-pe... https://thefreethoughtproject.com/the-state/fbi-frames-mentally-challenged-teen-suspected-terrorism https://thefreethoughtproject.com/the-state/fbi-frames-menta... https://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/19/how_the_fbi_created_a_terrorist https://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/19/how_the_fbi_created_a...

sanderjd 3y ago

Everyone. These people are totally screwed. The state of Kansas will be racing to prosecute this before the feds get to it first.